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Teachers, principals and support workers throng the streets of Melbourne on Tuesday protesting pay, conditions and schools funding.

Pay gap for classroom assistants emerges as flashpoint in Victorian teacher dispute

Education support workers have been offered a lower pay rise than their teaching colleagues.

  • Noel Towell

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School zoned have been updated across Victoria have been updated.

Parents celebrate ‘country school’ zone change after a decade of lobbying

Students in two regional towns will be able to access a popular Daylesford school as part of 11 new school boundary changes announced this week.

  • Caroline Schelle
Students were taught the wrong ancient history exam topic last year, studying Augustus Caesar rather than his great-uncle, Julius Caesar.

Parents, students to check exam topics after bungle makes history books

Months after the mix-up upended final exams, authorities have given students and parents a nudge to keep schools in line.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
Protesters in the Melbourne CBD on Tuesday during the school strike.

Parents warned of more disruption after thousands of striking teachers sweep through CBD

While classrooms across the state sat empty on Tuesday, 35,000 educators took to the streets of Melbourne. But more pain could yet be to come.

  • Noel Towell, Jackson Graham, Caroline Schelle and Chip Le Grand
State school teachers protest outside the office of Education Minister Ben Carroll in Niddrie last month.

Victorian teacher strike as it happened: School closures, rally updates and parent guide during the state’s first government-school strike in 13 years

Tens of thousands of Victorian government school teachers, principals and education support staff are walking off the job today for a 24-hour statewide strike — the first of its kind in 13 years. Follow our live updates.

  • Caroline Schelle and Isabel McMillan
Amanda Kay, whose son John is a student at Albert Park Primary School, is supportive of the teacher strike.

Day of mass disruption: Victoria braces for ‘costly’ teacher walkout

Uncertainty and confusion looms as tens of thousands of Victorian teachers prepare to strike on Tuesday.

  • Noel Towell, Nicole Precel, Jackson Graham and Chip Le Grand
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An Australian-first study has revealed bad sleep and problems at home are among the factors contributing to poor teenage health.

Revealed: The biggest predictors of depression, anxiety in teenagers

Bad sleep and trouble at home can set adolescents on a trajectory towards depression and anxiety, an Australian-first study reveals. But some things can help.

  • Kate Aubusson
Deputy Premier and Minister for Education Ben Carroll says the government is prepared for teacher walk offs.

Principals prepare to join statewide teachers’ strike

As industrial action looms, school leaders have joined teachers in rejecting the government’s pay offer.

  • Noel Towell
Students at Baldivis Secondary College tormenting a relief teacher.

Perth students suspended for tormenting relief teacher, posting video online

The video, posted to TikTok and since deleted, showed students at Baldivis Secondary College running rampant in the classroom, walking on desks, touching the teacher’s hair, and blowing vape smoke in her face.

  • Holly Thompson
Blakehurst High School captains Ethan Middleton, 17, Lisa Li, 17, Violeta Duvnjak, 16, and Matthew Liang, 16

Revealed: The state’s most improved schools in the 2025 HSC

Results from 2019 to 2025 were used to identify where was the biggest uptick in the proportion of students achieving band 4, 5 and 6 results.

  • Emily Kowal